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In this activity, learners create a simple “top” from a CD, marble and bottle cap, and use it as a spinning platform for a variety of illusion-generating patterns.

Learners trace, cut out and fly a boomerang, outdoors or in a large indoor space.

Create a “Find Someone” list, with about 10 items, each containing a shape, number, or measurement. Can you find someone in the group with hair about 4 inches long? Someone wearing parallel lines?

In this activity, learners will engineer a new shape and use it to create a new pattern with no wasted space.

In this online activity, learners can test their skills at finding constellations in the northern hemisphere's night sky.

In this activity about magnetism (page 15 of the PDF), learners will explore how opposite and similar magnetic poles affect a swinging (pendulum) magnet.

In this math activity, learners use cubes to calculate how many blocks it would take to build stairways with different heights.

In this activity, learners examine their fingerprints and learn that they can be categorized by shape, but each fingerprint is unique.

Learners construct a bracelet containing two strands of beads, which represents a double strand of DNA that codes for a gene. They match beads to the bases in a section of a chimp's DNA code.

In this activity, learners use multiplication skills to get groups of aliens safely back to their planet.

In this math activity, learners make toothpick designs by following simple patterns.